Good morning all :)
We seem to have finally arrived at winter, where much of the rest of the country has been for a while now. Not that we’ve arrived in a big way…
I do realize that many of you have (and have already had) a lot more snow than this - but it’s the first in this area and so is special to me :)
The Autumn Seeds sweater is now waist length and I’m trying to decide how to terminate the body. Forgive the silly pose; I was just trying to hold my arms up so you could see the armscyes :) This is not intended to convey any kind of attitude what-so-ever except that it’s early and I haven’t had my coffee yet!
These are the things I’m considering:
1. Tunic sort of style. I’d work the sweater down another 4 or 5 inches and then split the front and back to create side vents. The borders of the front and back flaps would be done in seed stitch and would probably be worked down another 4 inches or so..
2. Start the flaps (vents) now, just below the waist and work them in seed stitch for around 8 inches.
3. Knit the whole base of the sweater in seed stitch without splitting the sides - though I’m pretty much convinced that would make me look like I was standing in a barrel :)
4. Increase stitches and do ribbing such that there are enough stitches for the ribbing to hang straight down from the body without cinching in at all. Larger needles might help here too but I would prefer to do this by increasing stitch numbers than by increasing needle size.
5. Incorporate a series of knitted in gores, varying symmetrically in length and probably also knit in seed stitch with the increases done in the center rather than on the edges.
Hopefully I’ll be able to come to some kind of decision over the weekend and start to proceed accordingly. But if anyone else has any bright ideas, I’d love to hear them :)
Have a great weekend!
Note: Maureen - after you left last night, Nat remembered curly-Q thingies (technical term!) in the IK Holiday Gifts and I told her I’d pass the information along - If this works out for you, Nat totally gets the credit :)
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Woo-hoo! An entry with a picture of you! Always my fave.
Ryan - Oh my - you must try to get out more often! LOL! My mother would have asked, “What are you doing? Posing for animal crackers?”
Nope, I don’t have any idea either :)
call the pose ‘imperial’ not ‘silly’- let me throw in my $.02 and vote for option 1- i think you will then have a lovely tunic to wear over jeans or a skirt- the ‘barrel concept’ is interesting and brings to mind several sweaters i’ve made that ended up looking like their intended recipient was the jolly old bearded guy from the north pole instead of being for me-
hooray for your snow- it’s been cold here in the boondocks with ice in places but nothing like the lovely white stuff that you have there-
stay happy-
I think the tunic is a great idea. I will have to look for the Interweave Holiday issue. I’ll need thank Nat for putting on her thinking cap :)
We have about two inches of snow here.
I vote for tunic with split sides.
Barb - Oh you have the nicest way of putting things :)
I would have liked a little more snow than we actually got but I’ll take this :) No doubt more will be coming along.
Maureen - whle I would like to explore some of the other options eventually, I think the tunic is going to win too :) FOr one thing, it will be very simple!
Marcy - Well, it’s unanimous so far for the tunic!
Vote 1 TUNIC!
But I have to say that I like the knitted gores idea. Hooray for Chatters and Snow - thanks for hosting. I really enjoyed it and it was the start to a better day.
Nat - You’re more than welcome and I’m delighted to hear that today is going a bit better for you.
I think I’m going to work up a swatch this weekend and to see what the gore idea might look like - I’m kind of intruiged myself :)
Hmmm…#1. But gores do intrigue me…..
Bron - I don’t know where the idea came from but yesterday morning, when I was listing the treatments I was thinking about, it just popped into my head sort of full-blown - and it was like, wow! That could be seriously cool!
I JUST FOUND THE SEPTEMBER 27TH ENTRY!!!! I’m so glad it arrived and you loved it all! I only just thought of using the search function - it is very useful. We’re having a lovely time travelling around. I’ve so much yarn with me it’s not funny :) We’re off to Thailand tomorrow and hopefully will find somewhere to stay. Lots of love
Abi
Abi - How great to hear from you! Khathmandu - I’m pea green with envy :) I have always wanted to see that part of the world.
Have fun in Thailand and know your yarn is going to very good use here!
Your post has made me realize how much I’ve missed by never doing a top-down sweater. What intriguing ideas! I, too, vote for the tunic because it’s simple to do and a classic look. But seed stitch gores… (she sighs wistfully) wouldn’t those be lovely, too.
Daisy - I’m probably going to stick with the classic tunic deal as this is my first knitted sweater and I’d like to to be, you know, actually wearable :)
But I do want to experiment with the gores idea - seems that could be really interesting!
Oh the tunic idea is definitely a good one. And split sides! I’m just catching up so you’ve probably already decided, but there’s my 2 cents FWIW!
